Slider for multiple operated fastener installations



R. C. LEGAT March M59 W3.,

` 'SLIDER Fon MULTIPLEQERATED FASTENER INSTALLATIONS Filed Aug. 18. 1932 Inv/vena?" Robe CfLe By Patented Maiz 26, 1935 UNITED STATES SLIDER FOR MULTIPLE OPERATED FASTENER INSTALLATIONS Robert C. Legat, New Britain, Conn., assigner of one-half to United-Carr Fastener Corporation,

Cambridge,

Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts, and one-half to G. E. Prentice Manufacturing Company, New Britain, Conn., a corporation of Connecticut Application August 18,' 1932, Serial No. 629,325 .6 Claims. (Cl. 24-205) My invention aims to provide improvements in sliders for multiple operated fastener installations. l

In the drawing which illustrates embodiment of my invention:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of an installation showing my improved slider structure in use; Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Figure 1; Fig. 3 is a. side elevation of the installation showing a portion of the plate-like member raised to operating position as a pull-tab for moving l the slider; and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged section on the line 4 4, of Figure 1, of the installation showing a projection of theY pull-tab extending between two fastener elements.

Referring to the specific installation illustrated by the drawing, I have shown the usual stringers 1 1 with ythe edge fasteners 2, my improved slider and fastener-concealing tapes 3 3, as shown in all the figures of the drawing.

' My improved slider includes the usual fasteneroperating means 4 shaped and arranged to ena preferred gage and disengage the fasteners 2 when the slider is moved to and fro lengthwise of the stringers 1. A` web 5 extends perpendicular to the top plate portion 6 of the fastener-operating means and a plate-like means extends laterally therefrom in spaced relation to the top plate portion 6. This plate-like means may be made in any desired shape and, among other things, provides a means for concealing the remainder ofthe slider and presenting a neat and finished appearance to the installation. One portion A'I of the plate-like means is fixed relative to the remainder of the slider and is fastened directly to the web 5. The otherportion Bof the platelike means is pivoted tothe web 5 and can be moved about its pivot, as shown in Fig. A3, thereby providing the pull-tab for operation of the slider. 'Ihus the plate-like meansA provides utilityv as well as ornamentation.

Any suitable locking means may be lused to* hold the movable portion 8 in flat position. However, I have shown (Figs. 2 and 3) a projection .9 extending from the movable portion 8 and adapted to engage between two of the fastener members 2 in any suitable and well-known man- 60 ner. This projection serves the double purpose of holding the movable portion in the plane of the xed portion '7, when not in use, and of preventing movement ofthe slider relative to the fasteners the purposes of which are now well 55 known to those skilled in the art'.

The plate-like means need not be spaced from the top plate portion 6 except whenv the concealing tapes 3 3 are used.` This spacing is to permit the tapes 3 3 to pass between the platelike means and theI top plate portion 5 (Fig. 2), thereby to permit easy passage of the tapes and allow the plate-like means to remain above the tapes (Figure 1) at all times.

My improved slider is simple in construction, artistic in appearance, and combines utility with art in a highly desirable manner.

While I have illustrated and described a preferred embodiment of my invention, I do not wish to be limited thereby, because the scope thereof is best defined by the following claims.

I claim 1. A slider for a multiple operable fastener installation comprising fastener-operating means for engaging and disengaging the fastener elements on opposed edges of the stringers, platelike means carried by the fastener-operating means and divided transversely into two parts one of which is located entirely to one side of one edge of the other, said partsbeing shaped and arranged to conceal the fastener-operating means and to provide lany suitable design appearance to the slider structure, and one part. of said plate-like means being pivotally mounted as a portion of the slider for movement relative -1 to the other part to provide a pull-tab for manipulation of said slider relative to the stringers, and said pivoted part being normally in the same plane as the remainder of the said platelike means.

' 2. A slider for a multiple operable fastener installation comprising fastener-operating means for engaging and disengaging the fastener elements on opposed edges of stringers, plate-like means carried by the fastener-operating means.

and shaped and arranged to conceal the fastener-operating'means.and to provide any suitable design appearance to the slider structure and one part of said plate-like means `being pivotally mounted yas a portion of the slider for movement relative to the remainder thereof .to provide a pull-tab for manipulation of said slider vrelative to the stringers, and all .of said plate-like means being spaced away from the upper face of the fastener-operating means thereby providing a space permitting the passage of fastener element covering tape between it and the fastener-operating means, thereby exposing the plate-like means at alltimes.

3. A slider for a multiplev operable fastener installation comprising fastener-operating means for engaging and disengagng the fastener elements on opposed edges of stringers, a web extending perpendicular from the top face of said fastener-operating means, plate-like means extendini laterally from said web in spaced relation to said top face, one portion of said platelike means being fixed and another portion being hingedly connected to said web as and fox` the purposes illustrated and described.

' 4. A slider for a multiple operable fastener installation comprising fastener-operating means for engaging and disengaging the fastener elements on opposed edges of stringers, a projection extending perpendicularly from the top face of the fastener-operating means, a plate portion attached to said projection in iixed relation thereto and a second plate portion transversely pivoted to the said projection adjacent to one end of the rst mentioned plate portion and below the upper edge of the fastener-operating means and being adapted to act as a pull-tab to operate the fastener means.

5. A slider for a multiple operable fastener installation comprising fastener-operating means for engaging and disengaging the fastener elements on opposed edges of stringers, a web extending perpendicularly from the top face of said fastener-operating means, plate-like means extending laterally from the said web in spaced relation to said top plate, one portion of s ld plate-like means being nxed and the other portion being hingedly connected to said web, said hingediy connected portion having a slot therein allowing a portion of the webto extend therethrough thereby permitting various positions of the said hingedly connected portion relative to the said ilxed plate-like means.

6. A slider for a multiple operable fastener installation comprising fastener-operating means for engaging and disegginl the fastener elements cn opposed edges of the stringers, platelike means carried by the fastener-operating means and divided transversely into two parts one of which is located entirely to one side of one edge of the other, said parts being shaped and arranged to conceal the fastener-operating means and to provide any suitable design appearance to the slider structure, one part of said plate-like means being pivotally mounted as a portion of the slider for movement relative to the other part to provide a pull-tab for manipulation of said slider relative to the stringers, said pivoted part being normally in the same plane as the remainder of the said plate-like means, and locking means carried by the pivoted part of the plate-like means to lock it in the plane of the ilxed part when not in use as a pull-tab.

ROBERT C. LEGAT. 

